Murray

Diagnosis: Shell subspherical, pear-shaped, seldom with flattened aboral surface. Peristome thick, ring-shaped, with 3 straight, divergent oral spines, with 8-10 large basal pores, with stout, partly branched thorns at their bases, partly fused with the peristome. Three (seldom four) straight, weakly spiny, aboral spines, somewhat bent only at the base, usually in an equatorial position, alternating with oral spines.

Length: 1.5-2.0 mm.

Kingdom Protoctista
Phylum Actinopoda
Subphylum Sarcodina
Class Phaeodaria
Order Phaeogromia
Family Tuscaroridae
Genus Tuscarora
Species Tuscarora bisternaria

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species

Reshetnjak V.V. 1966. Glubokovodnie radilaoyarii Phaeodaria cevero-zapadnoi chasti Tichogo Okeana. Fauna SSSR, Akad. Nauk SSSR, Zool. Inst., Nauka, Moskva: pp. 1-208.

Schröder O. 1913. Die Tripyleen Radiolarien (Phaeodarien) der Deutschen Südpolar Expedition 1901-1903. Deutsch. Südpolar-Exp. 1901-1903, 14(Zool. 6):115-215.

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